Monday, May 4th

Lesson Objectives - Some students will take their final round of the Scholastic Reading Inventory.  The others will begin reading the short story "Marigolds."  Here, students will begin to determine its theme and create a literary analysis that reflects how the theme still applies to their lives today.
Homework - Students should submit April's Reader Response Sheet by tomorrow.  Class work pages 1-6(?) will be due on Thursday.
CCSS -

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.1- Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.2 - Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.3 - Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).